Guy calls out HR for violating minimum wage laws for salaried employees after receiving a 15% pay cut: 'Several salaried employees didn't even make the minimum'

This employee's Human Resources department thought they could get away with giving him a 15% pay cut, thereby paying him less than the hourly minimum wage.

Let this story serve as a friendly reminder to know your rights and triple-check your contracts. If your employer tries to make a sudden change in your employment agreement without going through the proper channels, you might very well be opening yourself up to renegotiation. Therefore, it's important to check your labor laws and be prepared to advocate for yourself before your employer takes advantage of you.

Of course, not every employer is this deceptive. In an ideal world, no employee should ever have to deal with this level of unprofessional and amoral behavior from upper management. Still, it's always best to be prepared. Once compensation comes into play, employers tend to show their true colors, so always be on the lookout for ways in which they might exploit or manipulate you and your coworkers.

For this employee, he quickly realized that the so-called necessary 15% pay cut he was receiving due to budget constraints was against the rules. In fact, when he raised the issue, management suddenly panicked. They realized that not only were they caught trying to pay this dude less than the required hourly minimum wage for salaried employees, but they also needed to act quickly before other employees discovered they were doing the same to them.

This author's account just goes to show that when you advocate for yourself in this way, you're not only protecting your own interests. You're actually protecting the interests of those around you. When you point out the ways in which your employers are bending the rules, you might actually be saving more people than just yourself.
That turned out to be the case for this employee, who has since learned of at least two other coworkers who were being severely underpaid. When you think about it this way, if the author had not raised the issue about his personal salary adjustment, his HR department might have felt emboldened to keep doing what they were doing without the fear of any retribution.
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"I [angered] a whole company and got several people demoted."

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